I am a chemical/environmental engineer. I have been doing research (on my own) for the past 3 years. I think I see a correlation with locations of high power, high gain microwave radars and broadcast satellite earth station antennas and increased autism. I put a hypothesis paper on Academia.edu.

Thanks for sharing this information. I believe there is a connection between Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure and Autism. The wireless age of communication with damaging microwave radiation is difficult to avoid for most. We use only cable computer connections at our house, and I do not own a smart phone. I have a cell phone but I rarely use it. I also do not use a microwave oven anymore. I wonder if microwave ovens are also harming our children. We all have better health mentally and physically since making these changes. Our son with autism is improving in all areas.

The adverse health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have been known since World War 2

Abstract

Microwave generating equipment first became common during World War 2 with the development of radar. Soviet bloc countries reported that individuals exposed to microwaves frequently developed headaches, fatigue, loss of appetite, sleepiness, difficulty in concentration, poor memory, emotional instability, and labile cardiovascular function, and established stringent exposure standards. For a variety of reasons these reports were discounted in Western countries, where the prevailing belief was that there could be no adverse health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that were not mediated by tissue heating. The reported Soviet effects were at lower intensities than those that cause heating. However, there were several accidental exposures of radar operators in Western countries that resulted in persistent symptoms similar to those described above. The Soviets irradiated the US Embassy in Moscow with microwaves during the period 1953-1975, and while no convincing evidence of elevated cancer rates was reported, there were reports of "microwave illness". Officials passed these complaints off as being due to anxiety, not effects of the microwave exposure. There is increasing evidence that the "microwave syndrome" or "electro-hypersensitivity" (EHS) is a real disease that is caused by exposure to EMFs, especially those in the microwave range. The reported incidence of the syndrome is increasing along with increasing exposure to EMFs from electricity, WiFi, mobile phones and towers, smart meters and many other wireless devices. Why some individuals are more sensitive is unclear. While most individuals who report having EHS do not have a specific history of an acute exposure, excessive exposure to EMFs, even for a brief period of time, can induce the syndrome.

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I think we have to start thinking about any source of EMF (electromotive force, which is measured in volts) as a potential source of "oxidative stress" on us and our children since EMF can move electrons and electron transfer can trigger ReDox (oxidation/reduction reactions) and "oxidative stress". If you Google "Peter Sullivan Autism EMF" he has been compiling lists of electronics, including baby monitors that all transmit electromagnetic radiation, which are all sources of EMF.

I expanded my research so that in addition to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from high gain antennas and radars I have included flooring such as vinyl/linoleum and synthetic carpets as a large source of EMF via static electricity & triboelectricity. Vinyl flooring has been linked with autism:

and can develop up to 12,000 volts on a child's skin crawling on the floor, synthetic carpets and plastic playground slides can generate up to 25,000 volts of static when a child slides on them. Plastic playground slides can blowout a child's hearing aid:

so why would we think all of that voltage is healthy for our child? So in summary, most studies have focused on chemical attack when in fact I think the primary cause of autism may be EMF (voltage) from electromagnetic radiation and electrostatics due to the synthetic and electromagnetic environment we have created.

There has been research showing autism clusters in certain urban high income clusters. Same thing is seen in Silicon Valley and affluent areas of MA. Among the hypotheses

1. Higher educated and more affluent people are more likely to get kids diagnosed2. People in such areas tend to marry and have kids at older ages and there is some evidence autism is more prevalent with older parents especially fathers3. People with similar traits tend to pair up in such urban clusters : geeky smart Silicon Valley dad and geeky smart Silicon Valley mom >> higher incidence of autistic offspring

You would have to control for all of these factors plus a ton of others.

AbstractThis article identifies significant high-risk clusters of autism based on residence at birth in California for children born from 1993 through 2001. These clusters are geographically stable. Children born in a primary cluster are at four times greater risk for autism than children living in other parts of the state. This is comparable to the difference between males and females and twice the risk estimated for maternal age over 40. In every year roughly 3% of the new caseload of autism in California arises from the primary cluster we identify – a small zone 20km by 50km. We identify a set of secondary clusters that support the existence of the primary clusters. The identification of robust spatial clusters indicates that autism does not arise from a global treatment and indicates that important drivers of increased autism prevalence are located at the local level.

MethodKulldorff’s Spatial Scan Statistic (Kulldorff 1997), is implemented by the SaTScan Software (Kulldorff 2006). Kulldorff’s Spatial Scan Statistic (Kulldorff 1997) reduces the problem of cluster detection to a problem of maximum likelihood estimation over geographical space. Through a single hypothesis test over space, the method identifies a region, where the distribution of cases relative to controls (or the expected number of cases) is most likely to be consistent with a significant excess of risk.In the absence of any known risk factors, the expected number of cases is calculated by multiplying the California case rate with the control population in the circle. If there are any known risk factors that are not spatially random, then an indirect standardization (Armstrong 1969, Julious et al. 2001) can be done. We standardize (Julious et al. 2001, Armstrong 1969) for parental age, a spatially structured risk factor. We thus calculate what the expected number of cases in a neighborhood (block group or ZCTA) would be if the rates in a given age group in the neighborhood were the same as observed for that age group in all of California. For each birth, we use a single categorical parental age variable for the adjustment process. The categorical parental age variable is derived from a continuous parental age variable, by grouping the continuous variable into 35 and older and 34 and younger age categories. We analyzed the data for each year from 1993 to 2001 individually searching for non-overlapping clusters of high and low risk of sole autism in California.

Some FCC calculations showing that just one installation of microwave broadcast earthstations within the area of that autism cluster can exceed the FCC safety guidelines for up to 6 miles around the antennas and does not take into the account of on-axis reflection of radiation from overhead aircraft.

You will also see that even though the dumbass engineers thought they were broadcasting those studio relay microwave links above your heads the planes are flying directly through the powerful microwave radiation beams and reflecting 95+% back onto your heads if you are in the area of those 3 busy airports and all of those microwave relay links and broadcast earth stations

I had a challenge from another "techie" that appeared to know something about Microwave Earthstation transmitters although after a back and forth discussion he went radio silent... I will let others decide who had the best argument.